best bluray drive for mac pro?

I am having a heck of a time getting LG Blu Ray BH10 in a Nexstar DX enclosure to work.

Model Identifier: iMac10,1

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 3 MB

Memory: 4 GB

Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

Boot ROM Version: IM101.00CC.B00

SMC Version (system): 1.52f9

Any hints?

Smokerz: Which LG blu-ray drive to you have? I have the CH10LS20 on my PC and want to move it to a Mac Pro. I don't think it came with Mac drivers. Where did you get the drivers?

thanks

michael

I have an LG WH10LS30 external Blu-ray disk drive/burner purchased from OWC. I have it hooked to my Mac Pro 3.1 via FW800, but it also works fine under eSATA. It works perfectly under both Snow Leopard and now Lion. I did not have to install any drivers to get the LG Blu-ray drive to work.

Tom

I successfully installed an internal Pioneer BD-RW (BDR-206D) I bought from OWC in a early 2008 Mac Pro (MacPro3,1) using a SATA cable running Snow Leapord. With Toast it worked perfectly. I burned 30 disks so far without a single problem...but then I installed Lion and it all went to ****.

The kinds folks at OWC tried everything to help me (which was awefully nice considering it's not thier problem Lion messed up what was already working). In the end, I had to pull out the ATA and power cable from my SuperDrive. Now it kinda works. I'm getting the same "disk not supported" error window every now and then when I try to eject the drive. I tried turning off the Energy Saver for harddrives as suggested above to see if that helps. So far the drive works without errors. Toast sees the drive so I will order another stack of Blu-rays to test it. It can read the disks I previous wrote just fine.

I'm not sure what the problem is. Both devices are shown in the Device Tree. I guess unless a fix is found, I will just sell the SuperDrive on eBay as I can't use it with the Pioneer Blu-ray burner.

For those of you having problems who own a 2008 Mac Pro and drive and connect it using SATA cable, the solutions so far is to lose the SuperDrive and turn off the "put harddrive to sleep" under the Energy Saver.

Thanks Tom ....

There doesn't seem to be any documented (official) support for Blu-ray. My Blu-ray drive is on my pc but I want it on the mac. I'll try it.

michael

Just a quick follow-up to my post, OWC sent me this email. Since everything is working fine with the SuperDrive disconnected, I will try this at a later date. But I thought this may be of help to anyone running into the same problem I had.

This is why I love OWC. As stated before, this really isn't their problem as the product they sold me worked prefectly before Lion and have had so long it can't be returned...but yet they continue to try and work with me to find a solution. All this with reasonable prices on their products.

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If all your optical drives aren't showing up correctly, there's a simple fix that may work. First, you'll want to navigate to User/Library/Preferences and locate com.apple.DVDPlayer.plist. When you find that, please drag it to the trash, then empty the trash. After that, simply restart the computer. The OS will be forced to re-create the preferences for optical drives, and it should then get the correct information for both drives. I've seen similar things happen with optical drives before, and this tends to fix those problems.

Now if that doesn't fully resolve the issues you're having, I recommend resetting your computer's SMC and PRAM:

SMC: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964

PRAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379

The Pioneer BDR-206 is just as compatible with Lion as it is with Snow Leopard, so it isn't a base compatibility problem. I believe that one of the above solutions will fix this, but if you are still experiencing problems after trying my suggestions, please let me know and we will work from there.\

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Had the same problem with Lion not recognizing my Pioneer BDR-206 optical drive, while it worked flawlessly with Snow Leopard. The fantastic phone support at OWC worked through the problem. (Thanks!!) Deleting com.apple.DVDPlayer.plist did not work. But this may have not worked since I did not have the latest firmware

FW 1.05. Pioneer only has a windows based firmware installer. So I reset my PRAM http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379 . Booted into bootcamp by letting go of Command + P + R but still holding option after the 3rd chime. Found the firmware download at http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/PUSA/Professional/Computer-Drives/BDR-206 . Installed it. Shut down windows, restarted Lion, and my BDR-206 is recognized again.

By following this advice I was able to get the BDR-206 working properly. I use Toast 11 mainly for Blu-Ray and it now works as expected.

I use LG Blu-ray players with no issues. If you want to watch Blu-ray movies I've found the application at www.macbluerayplayer.com works very well. Currently it's $60 but they have on on sale occasionally.